Jul 25, 2025
Fringe veteran Paul Andrew Perez was in the midst of writing a new teenage pop rock musical for the Edinburgh Fringe when he died in April. The director and theatre department head, based in Florida, was working with 15 to 17-year-old students from St John’s Country...
Jul 24, 2025
Just ahead of her 10th anniversary as owner of feminist bookshop ReadingLasses, Dr Jacqui Robertson, has achieved her ambition of ensuring that every one of the 10,000 books on her shelves is written by a woman. The shop, which she has run since 25 July 2015, is among...
Jul 17, 2025
No political statement, no underlying metaphor, no great revelations about the nature of humanity. And that’s a solemn promise. Matt Hale’s Funbelievable! 90s Rewind comedy hypnosis show is all about regular people doing bonkers things on stage (a lot of them set to...
Jul 16, 2025
Wigtown Festival Company is welcoming the return of Isla Rosser-Owen as its new CEO – overseeing its much-loved annual book festival and the rest of its year-round programme. Isla spent three years as Wigtown Book Festival’s cultural producer from 2018. In 2022 she...
Jun 20, 2025
The Edinburgh Deaf Festival is back for 2025, with a vibrant programme of shows and events embracing everything from new drama to comedy, music and magic. After a long, tough but ultimately successful campaign, this unique annual celebration of deaf culture, is laying...
Jun 5, 2025
Cheeky, funny, sexy – and harrowing, Sad Girl Songs is dark feminist comedy. Audiences are invited to come along and be entertained (and in some cases educated) by songs like You Should Know Where the Clit Is (a handy user’s guide) and Daddy Issues Boyfriend. Actor,...
Jun 5, 2025
Truman Capote revelled in outrage and celebrity – staging parties that would simultaneously delight and scandalise 1960s US high society. His guest lists featured Audrey Hepburn, Greta Garbo, the Bloomingdales, Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy, David Niven, Tony...
Jun 5, 2025
As a young boy growing up in the Philippines Jeremy Rafal had few links to the wider world – until his dad bought a TV and he discovered cartoons. With no mobiles, home computers, internet or social media, in a place with little in live entertainment and where even...
Jun 4, 2025
It’s 1900 and Lillie Langtry, the most famous actress of her time and a great Victorian beauty, awaits a crucial telegram from her dearest friend Oscar Wilde. In Edinburgh, while on tour, she plans a play presenting all his most illustrious female characters – Cecily,...
Jun 4, 2025
In the sleepy Irish village of Bunderr, silence speaks volumes. After the suicide of his brother, Alan sets out to uncover the truth — what he finds threatens to tear his close-knit community apart. Our Brothers in Cloth is a bold new play by Irish writer Ronan...
